[LEAPSECS] Common Calendar Time (CCT) -Brooks Harris

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ian Batten said:

> Certainly, if Scotland

> does opt for independence (on current polling and betting it seems unlikely, but

> let's suppose) the pressure for England to move to CET will increase.   There's some confusion 

> as to whether the proposal would be moving the UK to UTC+1/UTC+2 as happened 

> during the last war,  or UTC+1 all year around, as happened in the experiment 

> between 1968 and 1971, but on the assumption that the latter would have too many

> practical problems


Apart from anything else, it would violate EU law.


> I don't see why UTC/GMT would have any relation to the Scottish referendum which, in

> any event, is only 9 months away and will be a dead issue (one way or the other)

> thereafter.  Anyone so red-faced and UKIP-y that the designation of UK legal time as GMT

> or UTC mattered to them would be a lost cause for any sane political party anyway, so

> I don't see them mattering.    The set of people who would vote Tory but would be

> tipped over into Farage-ism by the nomenclature for time is not a major political force.


No, it's the political *impression* that it matters. Politics is mostly
about appearances.

Look at the unhappy history of the Coordinated Universal Time Bill.

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